Spoke-tenon and felly-clip.



PATEKTEB x0127, J. WILGOX. sPoKs "mm: AND FELLY emu APELIQATIQEI I-ILED MIKE 30. 1985.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 2?, 1906.

Application filed June 39, 1995. Serial No. 267,844.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that l, JACOB WILCQX, s citizen of the United States, residing at Anilin, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful S eke-Tenon and Folly-Clip, of which the 0 owing is a specification.

The invention relates to a. spoke-tenon and felly-clip.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of devices for connecting the outer end of a spoke to a felly, and to provide a simple, inexpensive and efficient device designed to be applied to both new and old wheels and adapted to firmly I'ip both a spoke and a l'elly wl 'iereby the orrner will be securely fastened to the latter and effectually prevented from becoming loose. I

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of this character designed in repairing wheels to obviate the necessity of substituting a new spoke for a spoke broken off at the tenon and to provide a device ada ted to be placed on the outer end of the spo e without removing the latter from the wheel and capable, when applied, of affording a firm bearing the entire width of the telly.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arm cmentof parts hereinafter fully described, il ustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended, it being understood that various changes in the forrn pro portion, size, and minor details of construction within the scope of the claims may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal sectional view of a portion of a w eel provided with a device constructed in eccenance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the device detached.

ig. 4 is a similar view of a device constructed for re airing broken spokes without removing tlle same from the wheel. Fig. 5 is a lon itud inal sectional view showin the same applied to it spoke and a fell ig. 6 is a transverse sectional view of t e seine. Fig. 7 is a transverse sectional view illustrating another form of the invention and showing the device applied to it spoke having a tenon Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawmgs.

1 designates a spoke-holding and {oilyclamping device designed particularly for use on new wheels and adapted to dispense with the spoke-tenon and comprising a spoke-receiving socket 2, felly-engaging llPS or jaws 3, and a stem 4, which is adapted to take the place of the spoke-tench. The folly-receiving socket is provided at opposite sides with slots or opening's 53, forming two clamping sides or portidns'fi, "which are adapted to compressed against a spoke 7, whereby the same is firmly clamped and securely held in the socket. The stem 4 is arranged in an opening}; of a felly 9, which is engaged at opposite sides by the lips or jaws 3, The outer end 16 of the stem is split or bifurcated to enable the stem to be clenched against the outer face or edge of the folly. The split portions are s read or upset a ainst the outer face of thel 2 of the drawin 5, suitable indentations being formed in the rally to receive the laterally bent portions of the stem, so that the tire 11 will fit properly against the outer edge or pee riphery of the rim. The laterallv-extending elly, as clearly illustrated in Fig.

laws or lips are bent against the o posits sidesof the folly at the inner portion t ereof, the device being constructed of suitable malleable material to enable this operation to be readily effected. The outer end face oi the socket is flat, and the inte al li s or jaws, before being bent against a oily, ave 11 per or outer faces which are flush with the at end face of the socket. The jaws or lips taper outwardly, and their lower faces are rounded, as shown. However, in applying the device to a new wheel the jaws or lips may be curved as shown in Fig. 2, instead of being arranged flat, as illustrated in Fig. 3. The form of device illustrated in Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, ohviates the necessity o reducing the outer ends of s okes to form the usual tenon, and it al for s a firm bearing the entire width of the enabling the wheel to be repaired without removing the spoke. This form of device comprises a socket 12 and op ositely-cxtending lips or jaws 13. The spoke is sprung laterally beyond the felly to expose its lower end to enable the device to be placed on it. The socket 12 is provided at opposite sides with slots or openings 14, which form opposite clamping portions, and the latter are compressed around the spoke to clamp the same. The lips or aws 13 are then bent against the opposite si es of the folly, which is also firmly grip ed by the device. The device, when applier to a wheel in this manner, will tighten the spoke and firmly attach the same to the felly, and it will last as long as a wheel and be more elfective than a new spoke, especially should the folly be battered or otherwise weakened. The lips or jaws 13 may be of any desired length, and they brace the felly at the point of attachment of the spoke. The form of device illustrated in Fi s. 4 to 6, inclusive, may be constructed of any desired size to fit the character of the wheel to be repaired, and when it is applied to large or heavy wheels, with which it is impossible to spring the spokes outward to place the device on them, the device may have the clamping portions of the socket bent outward sulficiently to permit the device to be placed on the spoke without bending or springing the latter away from the felly.

In Fig. 7 is illustrated another form of the device, which is designed to be applied to new wheels or to wheels which when repaired re uire the removal of the tire and the felly.

This form of the device comprises a spoke-receiving socket 15, provided with opposite slots 16 to form clamping portions an having a central opening 17 at the outer end of Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A spokc-holdin r felly-clip; comprising a spoke-receiving socket having a flat outer end face, and s lit at opposite sides to provide compressible clamping portions, said spoke-receiving socket being interiorly tapcred toward its outer end, and laterally-projecting jaws extending from opposite sides of the socket and having flat outer faces ar ranged flush with the outer end face of the socket, said jaws having round lower faces and adapted to be bent into engagement with a felly.

2. A spoke-holding felly-clip comprising a spoke-receiving socket having a flat outer end face and provided with compressible clamping portions, laterally-projecting jaws extending from opposite sides of the socket and having flat outer faces arranged flush with the outer end face of the socket, said jaws having rounded lower faces and adapted to be bent into engagement with a felly, and a stem extending from the flat end face of the socket, arranged centrally with respect to the same and having its outer end s lit.

3. A spoke-holding felly, comprising a spoke receiving and clamping socket having a plurality of clamping portions arranged to be compressed agains a spoke, a stem extendin from the socket and passing entirely throng 1 the felly, and having an outer split portion bent against the outer face or periphery of the felly, and opposite jaws extendin from and formed integral with the socket ant engaging the felly at opposite sides thereof.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JACOB WILCOX.

Witnesses:

V. L. ALLEN, JOHN G. KOEHLER.

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